Recently I needed to work with some Chinese and we had tons of trouble trying to figure out which fonts to use and how to specify them in CSS. After a lot of detective work and comparing long font lists we found some basic font choices that should work on both PC and Macs that have Chinese language packs active. I want to archive them here just in case I need to reference this ever again since it was PAINFUL…
Some Chinese Website tips:

1. Specify English fonts first and then the Chinese fonts in your font list. This makes it so English fonts render with your desired fonts then the Chinese fonts pick up the other characters. font-family: futura, arial, Hei, “Microsoft YaHei”, “MS Yahei”, “宋体”, sans-serif;
2. Standard chinese sans-serifs are: Hei, HeiTi or “Microsoft YaHei”
3. Standard chinese serifs are: “Fang Song”, or “宋体”
4. Set a meta tag to display chinese charset: utf-8. <META HTTP-EQUIV=”content-type” CONTENT=”text/html; charset=”utf-8″>

References:

• Creating Chinese web pages